How do you explain web APIs to the business? Here's an analogy not-so-tech-savvy businesspeople could probably relate to: using APIs are like creating music. That's the interesting comparison drawn by ...

“API” is an acronym for application programming interface, a set of protocols that allows two software programs to communicate. APIs are used to power web applications and integrate different software ...

APIs are application programming interfaces. They are pieces of software that act as a bridge between one application and another application, piece of hardware or database of information, for example ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Many researchers are interested in obtaining ...

API security often involves third-party, rather than first-party, APIs, and each use case can have different requirements. Rather than trying to make one technological approach work for all instances, ...

APIs power everything from internal systems to customer-facing products, but managing them at scale is no longer ...

Iddo Gino is the Founder and CEO of RapidAPI. Iddo has programmed since he was a kid and continues to contribute to open-source projects. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) continue to be a hot ...

Joe Liebkind is a reporter for top finance sites with 5+ years of experience as a writer, content strategist, and tech consultant. The role of a CIO (chief information officer) in the corporate world ...

REST is an acronym for Representational State Transfer, an architectural style that has become extremely popular over the past few years. A RESTful API is one that it is built in accordance with the ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. We’ve discussed minimal APIs in several earlier posts here.